It's not just antivaxxers who view their children as extensions of themselves or their property. Far too many parents think "parental rights" are absolute and that the state should not be able to intervene when they choose quackery over medicine for life-threatening illnesses. 1/ https://t.co/VK4uVZsxTZ
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Here's an example. It's an antivaxxer, but she doesn't go for quackery for cancer. I asked her if she thought it was OK for parents to let their child die of, say, type 1 diabetes by treating it with prayer instead of insulin. Here was her answer. 3/https://twitter.com/tmana/status/1210276999073353728?s=20 …
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This attitude that parental rights are absolute kills children. It's not theoretical. It's not hypothetical. It's real, and I've written about more cases than I can remember over the last 15 years. 4/4
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